Kiera O’Toole_ ‘Felt Map of Manorhamilton’, 2021, digital collage of megalithic gravestone, site-responsive wall drawing on handball alley and drawing, 25 x 38cm
Research residency: LEER (Landscape, Ecology & Environment Research 2020/2021, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Ireland This text is underpinned by my current PhD practice-led research which examines if drawing has the capacity to record the ‘emotional vibrations’ of a site’s atmosphere which can act as an active agent and co-creator of the drawings. Situated within contemporary drawing, the research draws from practitioner-researcher Deborah Harty’s premise that ‘drawing is phenomenology’ (Harty 2009). Based on Harty’s research, the processes of drawing in-situ and site-responsive drawing act as devices for perceiving and recording the hidden felt aspects of a site. Through my tacit and material knowledge and my “pathic sense and emotive modality of knowing”, the site-responsive drawing presents the moment of withdrawal and bears witness to the act of ‘being there’ or, I am, to quote Harty, “situated, a mark inhabiting space and time, an embodied blot.” (Harty 2015, 51) http://www.leitrimsculpturecentre.ie/programme/residencies.html @leitrimsculpturecentre @kieraotooleartistresarcher @irisharts_review www.kieraotooleartist.com #irishartsreview, #drawing, #contemporarydrawing, #experimentaldrawing, #sitespecificart, #drawingcentre, #Art, #Artwork, #irishart, #traditionaldrawing, #drawingexhibition, #draw, #artfair, #drawingartfair, #contemporaryart, #drawingdecentered, #paper, #dessin, #zeichnung, #dieziehung, #grafika, #loughboroughuniversity
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